Acknowledging the struggle : policy changes for state care leaving provisions
Cleaver, Kerri
Acknowledging the struggle : policy changes for state care leaving provisions Kerri Cleaver - Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2016 - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work .
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2016, 28(2): 22-31
"Neoliberalism is not kind to vulnerable populations. Care leavers as a vulnerable population have faired particularly poorly under successive governments. Policy and practice have maintained a position for decades in New Zealand where care leavers are responsible entirely for their own lives at the age of seventeen. This article reviews current literature, locally and internationally, in order to identify the needs of care leavers in the New Zealand context. It will question what is working already, what works elsewhere and how we might change the outcomes for these young people who have not chosen this path and yet appear to be punished through the government turning a blind eye." (Author's abstract). This article is published in a Special Issue on: Child protection, the family and the state: critical responses in neoliberal times. Record #5147
2463-4131
ADOLESCENTS
CHILD PROTECTION
OUT OF HOME CARE
SOCIAL POLICY
SOCIAL SERVICES
SOCIAL WORK
YOUNG PEOPLE
NEW ZEALAND
Acknowledging the struggle : policy changes for state care leaving provisions Kerri Cleaver - Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2016 - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work .
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2016, 28(2): 22-31
"Neoliberalism is not kind to vulnerable populations. Care leavers as a vulnerable population have faired particularly poorly under successive governments. Policy and practice have maintained a position for decades in New Zealand where care leavers are responsible entirely for their own lives at the age of seventeen. This article reviews current literature, locally and internationally, in order to identify the needs of care leavers in the New Zealand context. It will question what is working already, what works elsewhere and how we might change the outcomes for these young people who have not chosen this path and yet appear to be punished through the government turning a blind eye." (Author's abstract). This article is published in a Special Issue on: Child protection, the family and the state: critical responses in neoliberal times. Record #5147
2463-4131
ADOLESCENTS
CHILD PROTECTION
OUT OF HOME CARE
SOCIAL POLICY
SOCIAL SERVICES
SOCIAL WORK
YOUNG PEOPLE
NEW ZEALAND